For all but the most extreme configurations, WRF will run on a modern 2-4 core Linux desktop. It will be fairly slow, but it will run.
You can use the raw data from the official model runs published by NOAA as initial and boundary conditions for your model runs: https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov . One of the coolest and most under appreciated things about NOAA is that they publish everything online for free for everyone.
Or you can just get the raw data from the official runs from the link above and do your own extraction, and maybe post processing if you like.
(Source: PhD in meteorology. Finally made an account when I saw this posted)
For all but the most extreme configurations, WRF will run on a modern 2-4 core Linux desktop. It will be fairly slow, but it will run.
You can use the raw data from the official model runs published by NOAA as initial and boundary conditions for your model runs: https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov . One of the coolest and most under appreciated things about NOAA is that they publish everything online for free for everyone.
Or you can just get the raw data from the official runs from the link above and do your own extraction, and maybe post processing if you like.
(Source: PhD in meteorology. Finally made an account when I saw this posted)